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Not Reading Date with Snapper and BTRFS

Open circlenaut opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

Snapper, at least on Ubuntu, does not name snapshot folders as dates, instead they are given numbers. Within each snapshot folder are two items; a folder named "snapshot" which contains the data of the snapshot and a file named "info.xml." This info.xml file contains the date.

Is it possible to configure this plugin to read the date info off this xml file?

The attached image shows how the snapshots appear within the plugin.

The single date under 49 just shows the current time; the actual time of that snapshot is months before.

snapper

circlenaut avatar Feb 09 '18 22:02 circlenaut

I think you need to have the date in the name rather than just a number. Something like 942-20191104-1916

ghost avatar Nov 04 '19 18:11 ghost

It would be nice to support snapper snapshots by reading the date from the xml file

ssorgatem avatar Feb 21 '23 15:02 ssorgatem